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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nicknames - can't do them |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 1:43 pm
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Replies: 44
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| My name can be broken down so many ways that I don't even care I hate it when people asked me what version would I prefer I don't even consider it to be my name to be honest because it was changed from my original name at such an age that it has very little value to me apart from that it's quite a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nicknames - can't do them |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 12:27 am
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| My given name is unusual. People who see it written will mispronounce it, which I hate. People who hear it spoken will misspell it, which I hate even more. It feels as if they're trying to change my identity, which is probably oversensitivity on my part after a lifetime of people trying to...you kn... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nicknames - can't do them |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 12:19 am
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| Names are a lifelong special interest. I have big opinions about nicknames. Apparently, the OP's general experience is that when she gives her full name to new people, they ask if they can call her an abbreviation or shorter version. WHY, WHY, WHYYYYY? If someone tells me his name is Dominic, I'm go... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your ability of rational reasoning at a very young age |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 12:13 am
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| When those checklists for autism are written by NTs, they often say, "No sense of danger." Yeah, some autistic kids and adults have no sense of danger, but they are the Level 3'ers, not the Aspies or HFAs. If anything, the Aspie type would be so hell-bent on following rules, that they'd be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Things That Are Hard To Do For an Autism Person |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 12:04 am
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Replies: 23
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| Come on, let's be real here: Who actually LIKES brushing their teeth, autistic or not? Disliking this chore is not an autistic thing. It's obvious many NTs don't brush their teeth as much as they should (ugly unhealthy looking teeth, awful breath) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When Should I Reveal to NT Client She's Being Lied To? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 29 Jun 2025, 9:32 pm
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Replies: 4
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| He's not a threat to her safety, but she's told me that she has gotten medical advice from him "under the table," meaning, in her mind she was getting free medical guidance from someone she thinks is a real doctor. There's always that chance she could one day tell him about a new symptom; ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When Should I Reveal to NT Client She's Being Lied To? |
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Posted: 29 Jun 2025, 7:34 pm
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| I work twice a week as a "direct support professional" for a 38-year-old NT woman, "Stella," with a mild intellectual disability (she believes her IQ is in the 80s). She's very high functioning and once worked part time doing stock work at a large retailer. Stella lives in a host... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Diagnosed Late? Let’s Talk Childhood Signs |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2025, 10:07 am
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Replies: 11
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funeralxempire wrote: I displayed special interests that completely consumed me. Basically, any creative projects I did would be related to my special interest and it would dominate any conversation I had. I'd infodump on strangers and relatives.
You got us all curious: What was this special interest? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Diagnosed Late? Let’s Talk Childhood Signs |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2025, 11:23 pm
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| Was THIS a sign of autism: I'd unpeel the wrapper on crayons and place the "raw" crayon on the top of a heat register so that the heat would make it "bendy." I loved doing this but it was short lived because my mother found out and forbade it. I then snuck a crayon on a register,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have your "special interests" faded as you've gotten older? |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2025, 7:34 pm
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| Telomeres ? Have had a a number of them , Halloween has been almost a lifelong one. Then started looking for patterns .... or would find a topic , I liked , or got curious about..then would learn about ,everything I could about it. I've always been fascinated by telomeres/telomerase (the secret to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have your "special interests" faded as you've gotten older? |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2025, 10:44 pm
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| FINALLY, another autistic who has a spin in Fibonacci. Thought I'd never come across one. Unfortunately it's not in person. How deep did you go on that? Did you know that the dimensions of the human DNA molecule is 21 x 34 (angstroms)? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have your "special interests" faded as you've gotten older? |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2025, 10:41 pm
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| I will ALWAYS be very fascinated by the different phonetic ways girl names can be spelled. This started up when I was around 11, and I'm at least as old as the OP. In fact, this evening I was watching a reality show where someone was talking to the mayor of a small town. The mayor's name appeared in... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Just started a retail job and struggling with counting money |
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Posted: 23 May 2025, 10:17 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Doesn't the cash machine calculate the change? And all you'd have to do is know how much money you're being given? Every place I buy from, the cash box displays the change owed. You must be working in some little ma-and-pa antique store or something like that? As for closing the store by yourself, h... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? |
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Posted: 14 May 2025, 7:47 pm
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Replies: 37
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| My romantic partners & one crush have been my special interests. Lots of people say that being obsessed with your partner is a bad thing because the obsession fades after a while & then you may not want to spend time with your partner or you may want to end the relationship because the attr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? |
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Posted: 13 May 2025, 11:11 pm
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Replies: 37
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| ^ Right, you don't need all the traits to qualify for ASD, and I expect some of us don't have special interests any more than NTs do. I've always had a propensity to become super focused on some new interest, or, as they were called in childhood, "phases." So many odd things that I'd take... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? |
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Posted: 13 May 2025, 11:07 pm
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| Yes I'd say that qualifies as eccentric. 8O What's the thing about how it manifests? Is that about it interfering with normal life and survival? How it manifests means how the interest shows itself, such as me entering the stranger's backyard to watch the tree trimming without realizing, Hey, I'm l... |
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